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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue, Section 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Campbell say all cities build in order to represent the idea of this central area?
(a) A pit
(b) A religious temple
(c) A library
(d) A pyre

2. "______ is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation."
(a) World navel
(b) Power
(c) Myth
(d) Imagination

3. Comedy and tragedy are both aspects of the same experience of _______.
(a) Living
(b) Movement
(c) Understanding
(d) Growth

4. Who is the person associated with journeying to find the Golden Fleece?
(a) Jacob
(b) Jason
(c) Joseph
(d) Thomas

5. Who is the figure that returns with the Ten Commandments?
(a) Moses
(b) Jesus
(c) Jacob
(d) David

Short Answer Questions

1. Many contemporary religions are __________ manifestations of the same central figure system.

2. What is this transcendent source worthy of, according to Campbell?

3. The perilous journey [of the hero] was a labor not of attainment, but of ___________."

4. Who is the main archetypal character that Campbell reveals as being at the center of myths and stories?

5. What is ultimately glorious in life and in celebrations of love and beauty?

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